Southwest Leadership Academy Charter School

vision the vision of slacs is to build leaders one child at a time by changing their definition of reality. we aim to transform each child so that slacs will ultimately serve as a catalyst for community revitalization in southwest philadelphia and beyond. within our single gender environment, we aim to provide a well-rounded education that uses leadership and character development to promote excellence in all areas: academic, social, emotional, and moral. mission the mission of slacs is to foster the next generation of community leaders by: * providing a unique educational program that offers rigorous and research-based academic instruction. * implementing a leadership curriculum, unique to slacs, that will develop leadership skills essential to enacting change within the community. * adopting a single-gender education model and implementing effective research-based practices and strategies that align with this model. this single-gender model will ensure that scholars are able to disen